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by chaz 13y ago
I feel like developer-heavy organizations would be more successful at this. A major factor is the tools facilitate a lot of the communication (commit messages, bug tracking, build notifications, documentation, etc.). They're also comfo
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by chaz 13y ago
To be clear, I think that IE can be a good complement to advertising in some industries and use cases, but I think it's a poor wholesale replacement. I just think customers are bad at describing what they like/want. They need to s
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by chaz 13y ago
To be clear, I think that IE can be a good complement to advertising in some industries and use cases, but I think it's a poor wholesale replacement.
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by chaz 13y ago
This is just microeconomics: entertainment goods are poor substitutes for each other, and bands like Pink Floyd have monopolies on their own music. When you're in the mood for Pink Floyd, nothing else will do. Similarly, there are many
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by chaz 13y ago
It has its merits, but can't completely supplant the value of advertising. The biggest need is brand advertising. If Coca Cola reduced their brand advertising, their sales would go decline. Maybe I'm not imaginative, but I don&#x2
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by chaz 13y ago
Advertising is a two-sided market. As a business with a product/service to be advertised, how would I go about acquiring customers without ads? Everyone from credit card companies to the local dentist has the need to market.
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by chaz 13y ago
Please dont make this a personal issue about just OP. Hundreds of upvotes on this -- he's clearly not alone.
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by chaz 13y ago
I like this idea. Reminds me of RefactorMyCode.com. The article below says it lives on, but it's dead. Still seems like it could be interesting. Stack Overflow meets Github. http://www.intridea.com/blog/2011/4
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by chaz 13y ago
Correct. Twitter changed their algorithm to this in 2010 to solve the Justin Bieber problem. http://mashable.com/2010/05/14/twitter-improves-trending-top...
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by chaz 13y ago
To be fair to news organizations, the only thing that has changed since yesterday is that Snowden is no longer in the HK. It's hard to get people to read a story without news.
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by chaz 13y ago
They'll get at least 2 nights: And worse (or, really, better?): Thanks to travel regulation in Cuba, they'll have to stay there three days before they'll be allowed to fly back. http://gawker.com/s
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by chaz 13y ago
We're in week 3 of Snowden and the NSA. Even USA Today has it as the top front page story. After a certain point, it's ok to not expound the details every single time and focus the story on just what's new. http://
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by chaz 13y ago
Using the default Gmail settings of (a) Enable IMAP and (b) Auto Expunge on, I just deleted an email via Sparrow (IMAP). The email instantly went straight into the Trash folder and is not visible in All Mail. I expect the email to be auto-d
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by chaz 13y ago
If you don't believe that they delete it when you tell them to delete it, then using Gmail is already a non-starter. Also, yes, defaults do matter: the outcry from users from not being able to undelete an email would be much louder tha
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by chaz 13y ago
That's ok. There's enough value in elevating the awareness that these things change frequently and providing a change record for those interested in a specific article, that providing a neater/cleaner way of conveying the cha
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by chaz 13y ago
Lots of Telsa owners at the party, enjoying a free free drink or three before the event. No surprise that they were a bit enthusiastic at seeing a previously unannounced free feature launch.
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Battery Swap [video](teslamotors.com)
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by chaz 13y ago
Walmart's DW was 2.5 petabytes in 2008; undoubtedly larger now. Rumor had it that they were storing every line item from every POS receipt since the early 90s, but they probably don't have all that data online. I would think it ne
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by chaz 13y ago
stopwatching.us's letter to Congress is based on the premise that the Guardian and WashPo articles are true. Of course, Google and others are swearing that it's false. So why would Google want to sign that letter? This also assume
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by chaz 13y ago
Gmail users sending to each other will only relay inside Google's own private network. If all of my co-conspirators are using Gmail, there are no external relays to be tapped. Someone would have to read all of our SSL/TLS traffic
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by chaz 13y ago
> From their perspective, why not? The hard solution isn't just a little bit harder ... it's several orders of magnitude harder and more expensive. It's also highly vulnerable to simply using encryption. The easy solution
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by chaz 13y ago
The problem I have with the "duplicate the Internet" theory is that it favors the hard solution vs the easy solution. The hard solution is to secretly duplicate traffic from every data center operated by each of these companies, r
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by chaz 13y ago
The phrase "direct access" gets special attention because it's in the first sentence of the first paragraph of the original Guardian article. The companies didn't make up the qualification -- they're repeating the a
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by chaz 13y ago
Ouch -- thanks for the correction.
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The League of Women's Voters manages the debates, not the TV networks.
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MIT operates Lincoln Lab. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Laboratory
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That's a fruitless way of approaching the problem. It plays into the political divides of "us" vs "them." By trying to establish groups of people as "clueless" about a topic, it just reinforces the feeling
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by chaz 13y ago
> Hint: it's not by telling them their cool hacks are useless. No, of course not. It's by showing/encouraging more ways to hack a solution. Writing code is one of many tools that can be used, and as the adage goes: "i
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Office worker uses Google Images to find photos for a Powerpoint. News at 11.
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by chaz 13y ago
My worry is that HN on PRISM is turning into the 24-hour news cycle on CNN. There's little new information lately, but upvotes are being given for contemporary relevance (arguably at the expense of quality of submission) and comments a

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